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PlacePolokwane Art Museum
… indoor collections, and the outdoor collection consists of many sculptures on permanent display. A mass of metal, made up of melted guns which were…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the … 1977. The Somali Army…
EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… African army on the planning and control headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. Three houses were…
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… Pope John Paul II began his first tour of Africa, including visits to Zaire (presently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper…
EventTranskei gains complete independence
… The oldest of the independent homelands, Transkei, gained complete … independence as an autonomous republic under the policy of separate development. At its…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela ends her thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack…
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… SA homelands. Sisulu described the unrest as consisting of a popular revolt against the homeland's repressive … should be reintegrated into South Africa, as…
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. Twenty-two Transvaal United Democratic Front (UDF)…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator of the National Party during the multi-party peace negotiations, met with Bantu Holomisa, former leader of the Transkei…
EventMining agreement on wages and working conditions is signed
… The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed an agreement on wages and working conditions, averting the likelihood of damaging…
EventLabour pioneer Samuel Long is arrested
… Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded as one of South Africa's greatest working-class martyrs, was arrested after the defeat of Fordsburg during the Rand…
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… Barber was a remarkable woman with an extensive knowledge of natural history, especially botany and entomology and … with valuable information for his work…
ArchiveLeon Trotsky
… Black, red and white poster. 50th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky. Artwork of Leon Trotsky, murdered by Stalin on 20th August 1940. Call …
ArchiveEnd Conscription Committee report
… Report and addendum to the report of the End Conscription Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University…
We are here because you were there ... without us there is no Britain
… Yellow, red, black and white poster. History of cotton in the Southern United States of America, the start of the Civil War, and the end of slavery. Series…
ArchiveAffirmation
… lettering. Students Representative Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Signatures gathered at … Airport on 29th January 1971, regarding…
ArchiveNelson Mandela: The struggle is my life: A pictorial exposition
… showing three photographs by Eli Weinberg. One a portrait of Nelson Mandela. One a portrait of Mandela boxing and one of Mandela with Yusuf Dadoo, President…
Health and safety before profits
… letters, on black, yellow, red and white poster. Red image of clenched fist in middle. Black image of factories and oil drums across top of poster. Black…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… She and Neil Aggett had been a couple for the better part of a decade. In that time, they both became doctors, then … paths into welfare and trade union…
EventJapanese attack American Naval Forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
… before 8AM on a Sunday morning. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, … were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes…
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … grievance to your notice. There are two Indians here of the…
PlaceMohodi
… The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km north-west of Pietersburg (now Polokwane)…
ArchiveSolidarity Service
… White poster with black lettering. Photo of Nicolas Boiki Majesty Tlhapi. Missing since 1986 in detention. Standing for the Truth Campaign. Image of a dove…
ArchiveQuote from Marx
… poster. Quotes from Marx, Cecil Rhodes and Lenin. Map of Africa showing the colonial partition. Artwork of high society dining. Artwork of unemployed…
EventThe Christian Institute protests against travel restrictions
… asking him to reconsider the withdrawal or confiscation of the passports of six of its leaders, including that of Dr. Beyers Naude. Naude was … (1999)…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control the mobility of the Black population in White areas –…
Killings at Ntshanga, 29 December 1996
… The ANC in KwaZulu Natal strongly condemns the killing of our people in an ANC stronghold at Tin Town, Ntshanga near … self-restraint and refuse to be…
PlaceAlphen; Constantia Road, Constantia- Cape Town
… , Constantia Valley. This originally formed part of the Groot Constantia Estate, and the House probably dates from the first quarter of the 19th century. The…
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Regarded as the father of free press in South Africa, John Fairbairn left England … African Journal. The magazine proved to be the beginning of what would…
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… The building was designed by Sytze Wierda, chief architect of the ZAR's Public Works Department. Its foundation stone … by the Boksburg Municipality who put…